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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Richard WatsonGilder

913 A Child

HER voice was like the song of birds;

Her eyes were like the stars;

Her little waving hands were like

Birds’ wings that beat the bars.

And when those waving hands were still,—

Her soul had fled away,—

The music faded from the air,

The color from the day.